The topic that perhaps most worried future school graduates was the possible introduction of a third compulsory subject on the Unified State Exam. A variety of subjects were mentioned as possible “candidates” - from history to physics.
However, all significant innovations in the Unified State Exam 2017 should have been announced on the official FIPI website before the start of the academic year and, of course, reflected in the draft exam schedule. But there is no official news about the “third compulsory” at the beginning of the school year. Therefore, eleventh graders can breathe a sigh of relief: the list compulsory subjects on the Unified State Exam 2017 does not change, there are still two of them:
Russian language(the results of which are taken into account for admission to all universities in the country without exception);
mathematics– basic or profile level to choose from.
However, the question about the third compulsory exam continues to be discussed - but, as representatives of the Ministry of Education assured, a decision will be made only after public discussion. And this will not happen “right now.”
Unified State Examination in Russian Language - 2017: changes in individual tasks
The structure of the Russian language task will remain unchanged: a block of tasks with short answers and an essay analyzing the problems posed in the journalistic or literary text. There is no word yet on the appearance of the oral part of speech. In the future, “speaking” may appear in the Unified State Exam in Russian, but representatives of the Ministry of Education stipulated that this technology will be preliminary “tested” at the Unified State Exam in classes.
In 2017, changes to the Unified State Examination in the Russian language are planned in only three tasks, and they will not be very significant. In all cases, we are talking about expanding the language material:
in task No. 17(in proposals that include separate structures) will be presented not only introductory words, but also appeals;
in task No. 22(lexical in context) examinees previously had to find only one word or expression in a given fragment (for example, phraseological turn) that meets the task criteria. Now the task becomes more complicated: from several “suitable” lexical units you will have to choose the one that most accurately meets the conditions of the task.
in task 23(write down the numbers of sentences related to the previous ones in a certain way) now both one and several correct answers are possible. That is, the student needs to find all such sentences in the passage and enter either one or several numbers in the form.
Unified State Exam in Mathematics -2017: profile and basic exam without changes
The Unified State Exam in mathematics remains divided into two levels:
- relatively simple base an exam graded on a five-point scale, which mainly tests knowledge in the so-called “” field and the results of which are not accepted upon admission to a university and are needed only to obtain a certificate;
profile– much more complex, for those graduates who plan to enter technical universities, where mathematics is a compulsory subject for admission.
According to official data published on the FIPI website, no changes are planned in any of the exams compared to 2016. However, students who have chosen a specialized level, when preparing for the Unified State Exam in mathematics, should keep in mind that the authors of the exam have taken a course to counteract “training” in solving problems of a certain type. And tasks increased complexity may turn out to be non-standard: not beyond the scope school course, but requiring “mathematical ingenuity.”
In 2016, the presence of problems in the versions that differed in the solution algorithm from the options presented in the demo versions came as a surprise to many and caused protests and demands to reconsider the results. However, the developers of the exam made their position quite clear: one of the main functions of the Unified State Exam is the differentiation of students by level of knowledge, and schoolchildren who have perfectly mastered the full school course of mathematics are more prepared to study the subject at the university level and should have advantages over those who have simply trained to solve problems of a given type. So, most likely, “non-standard” mathematics tasks in 2017 will also be included in KIMs.
Unified State Exam in Social Studies: minor changes in structure
The USE in 2017 will generally correspond to the 2016 model:
- block of tasks with short answers;
- a block of tasks with detailed answers;
- An “alternative” task is to write an essay on the topic of one of the proposed statements.
However, minor changes are planned in the block of short answer tasks. The task that appeared in the 2016 KIMs under number 19 (differentiation of facts, opinions and value judgments) will be excluded from it. But there will be one more task for the “law” module: to choose from correct judgments from the lists, which will be the seventeenth in a row.
Total number of tasks and maximum primary ball l in the exam in the most popular elective subject will remain unchanged.
Unified State Exam in Physics 2017: significant changes, exclusion of the test part
The Unified State Exam in Physics in 2017 will be one of the three subjects that have undergone the most significant changes: and The test part is completely excluded from the exam structure, which involves choosing one correct answer from a list of options. Instead it will be significantly expanded set of tasks with short answers(in the form of a word, number or sequence of numbers). At the same time, the distribution of tasks across sections of the school course will remain approximately the same as in previous years. In total, the first block of the exam will have 21 questions:
- 7 – in mechanics,
- 5 – on thermodynamics and MCT,
- 6 – on electrodynamics,
- 3 – in quantum physics.
Second part exam paper(tasks with detailed answers) will remain unchanged. The primary score on the Unified State Exam in Physics will also remain at the level of last year.
Unified State Examination in Literature -2017: structure unchanged, but more questions on knowledge of the text
By 2018 year of the Unified State Exam In literature, drastic changes are expected: FIPI plans to completely eliminate the block of tasks with short answers, leaving only four mini-essays and one full-length one. But in 2017, the literature exam will be held according to the old, already familiar model:
- the first semantic block is an excerpt from an epic or dramatic work, 7 questions with short answers and two mini-essays on it;
- the second block is a lyrical work, 5 questions about it with short answers and two mini-essays;
- the third is an extended essay (choice of three topics).
However, while in 2016 most short answer questions were primarily aimed at testing knowledge of basic literary terms, then in 2017 these assignments will be aimed primarily at knowledge of the realities of the text. Thus, it will no longer be possible to “cross the threshold” only by knowing a small amount of theory.
You should pay attention to one more feature of the literature exam. In accordance with the rules, KIMs can include not only poems included in school curriculum. If a poet is included in the codifier, any of his poems can be offered for analysis. And this is legitimate - since mini-essays on a poetic passage should demonstrate the examinee’s ability to analyze the text independently, and not remember the corresponding paragraph of the textbook. In 2016, “non-program” poems appeared in many versions of KIMs, and, most likely, this trend will continue in 2017.
Unified State Examination in Biology - radical changes in 2017, exclusion of the test part and increase in duration
The Unified State Exam model in biology will change fundamentally in 2017: from the assignment the “test” component will be completely eliminated(questions with the choice of one correct answer from four proposed options), but the number of tasks with short answers will be increased.
In the control and measuring materials will appear fundamentally new types of tasks for the Unified State Exam in biology, among which:
- restoration of missing elements or diagrams;
- analysis of graphs, charts and tables;
- searching for errors in the notation in the figure;
- inferring the properties of a biological object from a “blind” image (without captions).
However, the developers of the exam believe that the updated Unified State Exam in biology will not cause significant difficulties for students: many types of tasks have already been tested on the Unified State Exam. The number of tasks with detailed answers will not change - there will still be seven of them, and the types of questions will correspond to the 2016 model.
Changing the structure of the exam will entail a number of changes in the procedure and grading scale:
- the total number of tasks will decrease from 40 to 28;
- the primary score is reduced to 59 (in 2017 it was 61);
- The time to complete the work is increased by half an hour, the duration of the exam will be 210 minutes.
Unified State Examination in a foreign language – practically unchanged
Unified State Examination foreign languages in 2017 will take place almost the same as in 2016, with only one exception. Formulation of task No. 3 in the oral part of the exam (picture description) will be changed. As FIPI experts note, when describing images, examinees sometimes abuse “imaginary circumstances,” claiming, for example, that their relatives (including wives and children) or themselves are depicted here (“I’m an astronaut and I’m floating in zero gravity”). This conflicts with the purpose of this task, which tests the ability to fully and accurately describe a specific photograph.
Therefore, the task will be clarified. Thus, in the Unified State Examination in Language in 2017, the word Imagine is excluded from the wording, and the word present is changed to describe. Similar changes will be made to KIMs for other foreign languages - so that it is clear that we are talking specifically about describing a picture, and not a “story based on it”.
Unified State Exam in Chemistry 2017: significant changes, exclusion of the test part
The 2017 Unified State Exam model in chemistry will also undergo significant changes related to the exclusion of the test part - and increase in the number and types of tasks with short answers. Among them there will be, for example:
- two-choice tasks correct options from several proposed
- compliance questions,
- calculation tasks.
Will change and structure of the first part exam: it will include several thematic blocks dedicated to one of the sections - and each block will contain tasks from both basic and higher level difficulties. The second part of the exam paper (tasks with detailed answers) will remain almost the same as in previous years.
Wherein:
- the total number of tasks will decrease from 40 to 34;
- the maximum primary score will decrease from 64 to 60;
- tasks No. 9 and 17 (relationship between organic and inorganic substances) will no longer be assessed with one primary point, but with two.
Unified State Examination in History - minor changes in the assessment system
In 2017, the history exam will be almost completely identical to last year's options. However, there will be changes in the assessment system: the “cost” of two tasks will increase from one initial point to two:
task No. 3(choice of terms relating to a specific historical period);
task number 8(selecting missing expressions from the list of proposed options).
In addition, the wording and evaluation criteria for assignment No. 25 (an essay devoted to one of the historical periods) will be clarified.
Unified State Examination in computer science and ICT in 2017 – without computers, no changes
The structure and technology of conducting the Unified State Examination in computer science and ICT in 2017 will be fully consistent with the 2016 examination model. Not there is talk and about the use of computers by examinees - although this idea (taking into account the specifics of the subject - absolutely logical) is actively discussed, this year’s graduates will again have to work with traditional forms.
When preparing for the exam, you should not lose sight of some features of the test materials:
- task No. 27 is given in two versions, one of which is simpler and is worth 2 points, the second – 4;
- To write the program in task 27, you can use any programming language of the examinee’s choice.
Unified State Exam in Geography: minor changes in the assessment system
No adjustments will be made to test materials in geography in 2017, but the “weight” of individual tasks will change: the maximum score for four tasks will be increased, and for another four it will be reduced.
Thus, the cost of tasks Nos. 3, 11, 14 and 15 will increase from one primary point to two (all - for identification and selection from a list of correct statements).
The following tasks were reduced from two points to one:
9 (location of the population of Russia, working with a map),
12 (distinguishing between true and false statements about urban and rural populations);
13 (geography of transport, industries and Agriculture Russia);
19 (export and international transport).
The maximum primary score remained unchanged – 47.
Official information about changes in the Unified State Examination 2017
All official documents, related to passing the Unified State Exam, are promptly published on the website of the Federal Institute of Pedagogical Measurements (FIPI). There is also a summary of changes, however, in order to get a complete impression of the “new trends” in the examination company, this is not enough - the information in the table is given very concisely and concerns only fundamental changes.
To keep up to date with all the details passing the Unified State Exam in 2017 “first-hand”, you can also:
get acquainted with the KIM Unified State Exam projects current year and carefully study the structure of the examination paper;
study guidelines for teachers compiled based on the results of 2016 - they are analyzed in detail typical mistakes last year’s graduates and “chew on” and justify the planned changes.
You can get acquainted with the changes in the USE KIM 2018 in literature in comparison with 2017 in the demo version published on the official website of FIPI.
The principles for selecting the content and developing the structure of the KIM Unified State Exam 2018 in literature correspond to the goal of obtaining objective and reliable information about the graduate’s readiness to continue education at humanitarian specialties in organizations of secondary and higher professional education.
Many years of improvement of the Unified State Exam KIM in literature went in the direction of searching for the optimal structure of the examination paper, creating reliable system its assessment, ensuring the objectivity of the exam results. The number of tasks testing knowledge of particular literary facts was reduced (in 2007, multiple-choice tasks were removed from the examination model: the experiment showed their ineffectiveness and “foreignness” in relation to literature); the number of long-answer tasks related to moral issues increased works of art; a typology of tasks of different content was developed; evaluation criteria were clarified; the optimal ratio of tasks was determined various types in the structure of the examination paper, etc.
Changes in the Unified State Examination 2018 in literature
1. Improved and closer to OGE criteria evaluation of detailed answers.
2. The algorithm of expert actions when evaluating detailed answers has been simplified different types; Greater transparency has been ensured in the formation of assessments for individual tasks and the work as a whole (for the expert and the examinee). The changes are aimed at increasing the objectivity of assessment of examination work and strengthening the continuity between forms of final control at different levels of school education.
3. Control over the quality of the examinee’s speech has been strengthened (speech is assessed in answers to all tasks).
4. The requirements for completing comparative tasks 9 and 16 have been clarified: the instructions for them do not require giving a justification for choosing an example for comparison, which is reflected in the criteria for their evaluation.
5. The fourth task has been introduced in part 2 (the topics of the essays vary, taking into account the genre-generic diversity of literary material and the literary era).
6. Maximum score for the entire work increased from 42 to 57 points.
7. The procedure for appointing 3 experts has been clarified.
8. Instructions for work and individual tasks have been improved (they more fully, consistently and clearly reflect the requirements of the criteria, give a clear idea of what actions and in what logic the examinee must perform).
The methodology for passing the Unified State Exam changes every year. Experts are inventing new ways to determine the level of knowledge of students, developing a list of questions, updating their topics, and changing the number of compulsory subjects. This state of affairs is extremely alarming and frightening for future graduates, because they also need to know what to prepare for and what to expect from an exam that is important for their lives.
In our article we will tell you the main stages of passing Unified State Examination in Literature 2017 year, and also announce possible changes that will affect this exam.
the date of the
There is not much time left before the main school exams. The time is just around the corner when “we can only dream of peace,” and mountains of textbooks on different subjects. Of course, preparing for the Unified State Exam takes a lot of free time, energy and nerves. The preliminary schedule for future exams has already been drawn up and it looks like this:
- Early stage - March 24, 2017. Reserve day early stage— April 3, 2017.
- The main stage is June 13, 2017, and the reserve day is fixed for June 20, 2017.
Required subjects for the Unified State Exam 2017
This is the most burning topic, rapidly moving from one student to another. Many schoolchildren are worried that the list of compulsory subjects will expand significantly and they will have to spend even more time studying textbooks instead of taking a well-deserved rest after school.
To date, there is no final list of new compulsory subjects, because officials had several disciplines under consideration: from history to physics.
- - required for admission to any university in the country.
- Mathematics - the exam is divided into two levels (basic and advanced).
Unified State Examination in Literature: possible changes
Closer to 2018, the literature exam should be radically revised and drastic changes will be made to some of its points. In particular, experts intend to completely remove tasks with short answers, leaving only short essays and one full-length essay.
However, it is still too early to sound the alarm and panic about the end of the year - the Unified State Exam in Literature in 2017 will follow the usual pattern:
- 1 block - Semantic. Here, students are presented with a short excerpt of an epic or dramatic work with 7 questions about its content (short). In addition, the graduate must write a couple of mini-essays on a given topic.
- Block 2 - A lyrical work with several questions for it, as well as two mini-essays.
- Block 3 - An extended essay on any of the three given topics.
However, small changes will still occur. They will concern the construction of questions - they will focus on knowledge of the realities of the text, and not on knowledge of basic literary terms. It follows from this that to pass the exam it is not enough to have a narrow knowledge of literature.
I would also like to focus on one more feature of the literature exam - poetry. As a rule, students hope that in the forms they will find a poem by a certain author from the school curriculum.
However, based on the rules of KIM, if a poet was included in the codifier, then any of his works can be submitted for analysis in the exam. This is a fairly correct approach, because during the final test, the graduate must show in a mini-essay how correctly he can analyze, without referring to the pages of textbooks.
Already in 2016, “non-school” poems could be found in many versions of KIMs, so in 2017 this move will certainly be repeated.
Final essay
To get a good grade on this unit, it is not enough to simply write down your thoughts on paper. It is necessary to carefully think through each proposal, format it correctly and express your opinion in a clear and simple form. Spelling and punctuation errors attract the attention of reviewers, so you need to avoid them.
In addition, each student should try to fully reveal the given topic, using not only his own life examples, but also arguments from the field of literature. The structure of the text should look like this: introduction, several arguments and examples, conclusion.
To ensure that the final essay is of high quality, the graduate already has access to a list of works that have been submitted to the Unified State Exam in Literature. After reading them and also familiarizing yourself with additional information about the author, the history of writing, key points and other details, you will definitely write a worthy work that deserves the highest praise.
Grading scale
In 2017, in order to pass the threshold for this exam, you only need to score 36 points. It’s not that difficult to earn them - just solve 9 tasks (from 1 to 7, 10 and 11). Based on a five-point scale, the primary/test scores are as follows:
Preparation for the Unified State Exam in Literature
Any graduate would dream of seeing the coveted “A” in the certificate, but not everyone is able to pass the exams with high marks. Only those who spare no effort and time, spend it on preparation, endlessly leaf through supporting literature, have every chance of getting an “Excellent”. Preparation for the Unified State Exam can be done in various ways:
- Take the demo version of the exam over and over again.
- Familiarize yourself with the questions using tests that are similar to those that will be taken on the Unified State Exam.
- Contact tutors.
Whichever of the proposed options you choose, you must remember that without a certain amount of knowledge, none of them will work. Read more, analyze, try to compose essays, and then successful completion the exam is guaranteed to you.
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The methodology for passing the Unified State Exam changes every year. Experts are inventing new ways to determine the level of knowledge of students, developing a list of questions, updating their topics, and changing the number of compulsory subjects. This state of affairs is extremely alarming and frightening for future graduates, because they also need to know what to prepare for and what to expect from an exam that is important for their lives.
In our article we will tell you the main stages of passing Unified State Examination in Literature 2017 year, and also announce possible changes that will affect this exam.
the date of the
There is not much time left before the main school exams. The time is just around the corner when “we can only dream of peace,” and mountains of textbooks on various subjects are collected on the desk. Of course, preparing for the Unified State Exam takes a lot of free time, energy and nerves. The preliminary schedule for future exams has already been drawn up and it looks like this:
- Early stage - March 24, 2017. The reserve day for the early stage is April 3, 2017.
- The main stage is June 13, 2017, and the reserve day is fixed for June 20, 2017.
Required subjects for the Unified State Exam 2017
This is the most burning topic, rapidly moving from one student to another. Many schoolchildren are worried that the list of compulsory subjects will expand significantly and they will have to spend even more time studying textbooks instead of taking a well-deserved rest after school.
To date, there is no final list of new compulsory subjects, because officials had several disciplines under consideration: from history to physics.
- Russian language is required for admission to any university in the country.
- Mathematics - the exam is divided into two levels (basic and specialized).
Unified State Examination in Literature: possible changes
Closer to 2018, the literature exam should be radically revised and drastic changes will be made to some of its points. In particular, experts intend to completely remove tasks with short answers, leaving only short essays and one full-length essay.
However, it is still too early to sound the alarm and panic about the end of the year - the Unified State Exam in Literature in 2017 will follow the usual pattern:
- 1 block - Semantic. Here, students are presented with a short excerpt of an epic or dramatic work with 7 questions about its content (short). In addition, the graduate must write a couple of mini-essays on a given topic.
- Block 2 - A lyrical work with several questions for it, as well as two mini-essays.
- Block 3 - An extended essay on any of the three given topics.
However, small changes will still occur. They will concern the construction of questions - in the Unified State Exam 2017 the emphasis will be on knowledge of the realities of the text, and not on knowledge of basic literary terms. It follows from this that to pass the exam it is not enough to have a narrow knowledge of literature.
I would also like to focus on one more feature of the literature exam - poetry. As a rule, students hope that in the forms they will find a poem by a certain author from the school curriculum.
However, based on the rules of KIM, if a poet was included in the codifier, then any of his works can be submitted for analysis in the exam. This is a fairly correct approach, because during the final test, the graduate must show in a mini-essay how correctly he can analyze, without referring to the pages of textbooks.
Already in 2016, “non-school” poems could be found in many versions of KIMs, so in 2017 this move will certainly be repeated.
Final essay
To get a good grade on this unit, it is not enough to simply write down your thoughts on paper. It is necessary to carefully think through each proposal, format it correctly and express your opinion in a clear and simple form. Spelling and punctuation errors attract the attention of reviewers, so you need to avoid them.
In addition, each student should try to fully reveal the given topic, using not only his own life examples, but also arguments from the field of literature. The structure of the text should look like this: introduction, several arguments and examples, conclusion.
To ensure that the final essay is of high quality, the graduate already has access to a list of works that have been submitted to the Unified State Exam in Literature. After reading them, as well as getting acquainted with additional information about the author, the history of writing, key points and other details, you will definitely write a worthy work that deserves the highest praise.
Grading scale
In 2017, in order to pass the threshold for this exam, you need to score only 36 points. It’s not that difficult to earn them - just solve 9 tasks (from 1 to 7, 10 and 11). Based on a five-point scale, the primary/test scores are as follows:
Preparation for the Unified State Exam in Literature
Any graduate would dream of seeing the coveted “A” in the certificate, but not everyone is able to pass the exams with high marks. Only those who spare no effort and time, spend it on preparation, endlessly leaf through supporting literature, have every chance of getting an “Excellent”. Preparation for the Unified State Exam can be done in various ways:
- Take the demo version of the exam over and over again.
- Get acquainted with the questions using tests that are similar to those that will be taken on the Unified State Exam.
- Contact tutors.
Whichever of the proposed options you choose, you must remember that without a certain amount of knowledge, none of them will work. Read more, analyze, try to compose essays, and then you are guaranteed to successfully pass the exam.
New Unified State Exam model Literature submitted for wide discussion
Text: Natalya Lebedeva/RG
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Just the other day they were summed up, and developers and teachers have already gathered to discuss the new exam model. But future graduates have nothing to worry about, the developers assure that the innovations will not affect them. But 9th grade students and their parents should take a closer look at possible changes. New model The Unified State Examination in literature may be introduced in 2018.
Teacher of Russian language and literature at school No. 57, Chief Editor magazine "Literature" Sergey Volkov carefully studied the proposed changes and assessed the possibility of open discussion in his article “Unified State Examination in Literature in anticipation of a new model,” published on the portal of the Guild of Literature.
Sergey Volkov
June 14 at Federal Institute pedagogical measurements, an extended meeting of the Scientific and Methodological Council on Literature was held, at which the new model of the Unified State Exam in literature was discussed. Following the meeting, it was decided to finalize the model and present it for wide discussion in August.
It is important that the discussion continues throughout academic year, that is, graduates of 2017 will take the Unified State Exam in Literature in the same version as now.
But those who completed 9th grade this year should take a closer look at the new model - it is quite possible that it will be what awaits them at the exam in 2018.
According to the developers (their position was represented by the head Federal CommissionSergey Zinin, author and current version of the Unified State Exam), the changes are in no way revolutionary. The new model is more than successive to the old one. What changes are proposed?
1. Short answer tasks are excluded. As the developers explained, these tasks do not pose any difficulty for today’s schoolchildren; everyone is now well versed in the terms, so the tasks have lost their distinctive meaning.
By the way, literature is the first subject that proposes to abandon not only multiple-choice tests (this was done a long time ago), but also open-type tests (where the answer must be given in one word or as a sequence of numbers).
2. The number of tasks of the student's choice has been increased. Now he will be able to choose not only the topic of the “big essay” (by the way, there will be four of them instead of three), but also one of the options for the first and third tasks. For example, having received B. Okudzhava’s poem “The sentries of love on Smolenskaya stand...”, he can decide which question is more interesting for him to answer:
“What is the attitude of the lyrical hero of the poem to the “great eternal army” of lovers?” or “What role does anaphora play in the poem?”
3. Comparison tasks have been simplified. If now in one of the Unified State Exam tasks the proposed text needs to be compared with two texts (and thereby show your reading and philological horizons), now you are asked to remember only one text for comparison.
4. The length of the essay in the fifth task has been increased from 200 to 250 words. In general
the student must write 4 mini-papers of 50 words and an essay of 250 words, that is, at least 450 words.
5. The verification criteria have been clarified. It is precisely according to the new criteria that experts have the most questions (for example, is it worth introducing a mandatory citation requirement into the criteria - what then to do with voluminous epic works?). Both at the meeting and during testing, many wishes were expressed regarding the criteria - one must assume that by August the developers will take into account some of the proposals.
6. Instructions for exam takers have been improved.
The new model was tested in 60 schools in different regions,
1000 people took the trial exam
(and among them were those who do not plan to take the Unified State Exam in Literature), a survey of teachers was conducted. Judging by the results presented at the meeting, the majority approves of this model.
What questions most often arise for those who get acquainted with a new model?
1. A question of lack of time.
30% of those who took the trial exam did not meet the allotted deadline.
This is enough big number to think about the relationship between time and volume of tasks.
2. Imbalance of criteria. For example, regarding tasks
criteria of factual accuracy and logic of presentation outweigh substantive criteria,
aimed at identifying understanding. But is it so important to remember the exact name of the hero or some artistic detail?
One of the criteria requires the person taking the exam not to distort “author’s position (intention)”.
But, firstly, the idea and position are far from synonymous, and secondly, there are endless scientific disputes about the author’s position in almost any work - and what point of view should the student express then? And is it known to anyone for certain? "author's position"(let alone the idea)?
Unclear and vague wording of questions.
For example, after reading a fragment of “The Inspector General,” the student must answer the question “What in the above fragment indicates the real state of affairs in the city?” This “what” question is unclear. Will it be enough to write in response to it - “ words such and such"- and list these words?
5. The migration of exam topics to the December essay also raises concerns. How are such, for example, formulations from demo versions of the Unified State Exam “Which of the characters in Tolstoy’s novel “War and Peace” is most interesting to you and why?” or "Pages of history in Russian literature"? Is it necessary to duplicate in the Unified State Exam ( profile exam) December essay (meta-subject exam for everyone)? The difference in verification criteria does not make a difference here. A representative of Moscow State University even called for the introduction of special elective tasks of increased complexity into the Unified State Examination for future philologists, which may not be completed by, say, future designers or actors - in order to burden the former and not pester the latter with unnecessary things.
At the meeting, concerns were even expressed that the bar for the exam was being lowered and that it was possible to pass it without reading the school curriculum (or having become familiar with it through brief retellings). The developers did not agree with this, although the same Sergei Zinin told a story about some 100-point Unified State Exam student who, speaking to the guys going for testing, admitted that she was preparing for the Unified State Exam based on brief retellings...
And today there are a dozen writers who are in demand, write about the here and now in a normal, understandable language - they should be read in school in parallel with the classics...
But I don’t understand how today’s schoolchildren should read Dostoevsky. I myself started reading it at the age of 25 and did not enjoy it. Monstrously sloppy in language and depressed. To read it you need a stable nervous system. Therefore, at school we can limit ourselves to a lecture on Dostoevsky, where we sketch out the outline - ideological, philosophical, artistic - and then leave it to the student for the future.” Mikhail Weller concluded his speech with words about the destructiveness of "universal dispatch educational process» (and the Unified State Exam is one of the elements of such “dispatching”) and called for questions to be posed in the exam in such a way as to “so that my head turns on.”
“Everything that works against living thought and interest is bad for literature.”
Weller's speech (and the very invitation to the meeting) was quite unexpected for such a meeting - perhaps that is why his speech was met with silence and did not raise a single question. The experts were more interested in the specifics of the demo than in discussions about the crisis of civilization and liberal arts education. Which is partly a pity, because important words the need for “real work” is somehow forgotten when we fall into the logic of the Unified State Exam. There are more and more boxes of forms, criteria points, metal detector frames, waiting for appeals...
Be that as it may, the very openness of the discussion cannot but rejoice. For this, thanks to both the developers and FIPI as a whole. Deciding on such a discussion is not easy - after all, a negative reaction to everything new is predictable, and it is not always constructive. The slowness of the movement is also pleasing - after all, there is a whole year to comprehend the proposal. It is now important to participate in the online discussion, which, we remind you, will begin in August.
Sergey Vladimirovich Volkov
Education
1987–1992 — Moscow State University them. M. V. Lomonosov, Faculty of Philology. Specialty "Russian language and literature". Qualification: “Philologist.” Teacher of Russian language and literature" (diploma with honors).
Professional activity
1992–2016 - teacher of Russian language and literature at the State Budgetary educational institution"Education Center No. 57 in Moscow." In 2013, he was awarded the title “Honorary Worker” general education RF".
2011–2016 — Associate Professor, Faculty of Philology, Higher School of Economics. Head of the School of Young Philologists, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
Member of the Moscow Union of Journalists, editor-in-chief of the magazine “Literature” (publishing house “First of September”).
2011–2014 — member Public Chamber RF.
Since August 2012 - member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia.
2013 - Chairman of the Central Subject-Methodological Commission for Literature All-Russian Olympiad schoolchildren.
Since 2013 he has been teaching the history of Russian literature at the Moscow Art Theater School.
2015 - Chairman of the Guild of Literature Writers.
